African Perspective
British Broadcasting Corporation
Documentaries on all aspects of Africa - from politics to history, from music to conflict.
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BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 2 September 1988
In 1986 hundreds of thousands tonnes of poisonous carbon dioxide was released from the volcanic lake Nyos in Cameroon. The disaster killed 1600 people. What happened to the survivors? And …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 15 May 1988
An examination of why and how the Organisation of African Unity came into being, beginning with the conference that met in May 1963 when African leaders met in Addis Ababa …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 25 October 1987
President Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso was assassinated during a coup d'etat organised by his fellow politician Blaise Compaoré. What events led to Sankara's death and what caused the fall …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 1 January 1987
What happened to the socialist idealism of the newly-independent Algeria? A look at the first 25 years of an Algeria free of colonialism from Algeria's War of independence onwards.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 23 July 1986
Writer and observer of the Nigerian political scene, Chinua Achebe answers questions on writing fiction and children's books, Nigerian politics and religion.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 22 March 1985
At the time of Azumah Nelson defence of the his World featherweight champion title, what is the state of African boxing? And what are the prospects for Africa's boxers at …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 8 February 1985
Uganda's president Milton Obote talks about the Ugandan Bush War, Yoweri Museveni, the forthcoming 1985 Ugandan elections and Uganda's human rights record.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 3 February 1984
Report on the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and its effects on the country 30 years later.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 23 May 1980
Pope John Paul II's visit to Africa.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 25 January 1980
South Africans respond to the proposed constitutional changes including the writer Mtutuzeli Matshoba; Curtis Nkondo, president of the Black Consciousness Movement, Zarpo; Sheena Duncan, of the organisation Black Sash; Mike …